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Virginia Administrative Code
Title 22. Social Services
Agency 40. Department of Social Services
Chapter 730. Investigation of Child Abuse and Neglect in Out of Family Complaints
11/23/2024

22VAC40-730-20. General.

For the purpose of this chapter, valid complaints of child abuse or neglect involving complaints in a facility or foster home shall be investigated by qualified staff employed by local departments of social services.

Staff shall be determined to be qualified based on completion of an out of family training course as approved by the department.

This regulation is limited in scope to the topics contained in this chapter. All issues regarding investigations, findings, and appeals are found in Child Protective Services, 22VAC40-705, and as such are cross referenced and incorporated into and apply to out of family cases to the extent that they are not inconsistent with this regulation.

Statutory Authority

§ 63.2-217 of the Code of Virginia.

Historical Notes

Derived from VR615-45-5 § 2.1, eff. January 26, 1994; amended, Virginia Register Volume 19, Issue 3, eff. November 20, 2002; Volume 30, Issue 6, eff. January 1, 2014; Volume 35, Issue 23, eff. August 23, 2019.

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